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Speaker 1: they're not going to make it anymore, Ronan. The rural

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Speaker 1: How are they going to do it? The car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: I have like a cigarette lighter, which is what I

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Speaker 1: about that. Welcome to the radio home of ron Andanian

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Speaker 1: the Car Doctor, since this is where car owners the

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Speaker 1: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up

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Speaker 1: five six and now runningy. Welcome back, we're running any

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Speaker 1: of the car Doctor glad to be here with you

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Speaker 1: I'm so happy to be here hoping you to fix cars.

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Speaker 1: That's what this show is all about. If you're new

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Speaker 1: to Who wants to be Ron and Adien? Could you

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Speaker 1: It's it's just I just go about my business. I

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Speaker 1: So there's you know, is it reproducible that it only

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Speaker 1: I'd like to cover the basics because I don't want

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Speaker 1: cooling system maintenance is probably a great idea. A water pump,

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Speaker 1: that if you're if you're planning to keep it the

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Speaker 1: you might want to consider putting a radiator in it.

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Speaker 1: what you're really asking for is a cooling system overhaul

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Speaker 1: how exactly does a fuel editive work, you know, poored

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Speaker 1: pressures and you usually have a mechanical fuel pump that

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Speaker 1: tends to wear unless it gets lubricated. UH. Some fuel,

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Speaker 1: some diesel fuels that you buy in the market, they

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Speaker 1: don't have enough lubrication as part of them, and so

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Speaker 1: some of our diesel additives will add lubrication to protect

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Speaker 1: those pumps. Steffund, you know, how do you pick the

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Speaker 1: right additive in our In our closing couple of minutes here,

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Speaker 1: can you can you break that down for us because

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Speaker 1: there's so many choices in the marketplace, Yes, there is. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's very hard to uh state that one additive will

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Speaker 1: cover it all. A lot of times when I get

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Speaker 1: that question on a specific car, I recommend two or three,

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Speaker 1: possibly with different intervals. We mentioned earlier the yearly cleaning.

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Speaker 1: We have, for example, a fuel additive that we recommend

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Speaker 1: every ten to twelve thousand miles that is a strong cleaner. UH.

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Speaker 1: Then we have additives that you are supposed to use

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Speaker 1: in between those ten to twelve thousand miles uh for

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Speaker 1: maintenance UH and corrosion protection and possibly lubrication. UH. And

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Speaker 1: then you've got to consider also another consideration is is

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Speaker 1: it a port injected old school engine where the injector

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Speaker 1: sits in the intake court that takes a different type

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Speaker 1: of additive to clean those because there you also clean

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Speaker 1: the intake foul UH. Newer g d I engines direct

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Speaker 1: inject injected engines they have different issues. Because of the

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Speaker 1: high pressures and temperatures inside the combustion chamber, the injectors

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Speaker 1: actually get UH deposits built up on the outside of

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Speaker 1: the mouth of the injector, and so you need a

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Speaker 1: very unique additive there that can reach that part of

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Speaker 1: the injector UH and clean that and keep that cleaning.

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Speaker 1: So it all depends on the year, the model, what

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Speaker 1: type of engine, what type of fuel system, how much

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Speaker 1: you drive uh, etcetera, etcetera. So it's very hard to

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Speaker 1: give a general recommendation UH. But what I do want

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Speaker 1: to say is use frequently use fuel additives. And if

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Speaker 1: you want to go onto our website, there are several

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Speaker 1: recommendations on there. We also have a tech support phone

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Speaker 1: number you can call and get you know, advice on

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Speaker 1: what to use. Can you can you mix? You know,

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Speaker 1: if if one week you use product A, in the

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Speaker 1: next time you use product B in the third time,

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Speaker 1: to use products see can you mix fuel additives from

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Speaker 1: different manufacturers, different makers? Is that good? Bad? Yeah? You

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Speaker 1: can UH and there's probably nothing uh negative about doing that,

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Speaker 1: but I suggest you stay with ours and use those regularly.

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Speaker 1: One question that I get frequently is can I add

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Speaker 1: two of your additives at the same time. Yes, you can.

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Speaker 1: It's never gonna do damage. But what I always tell

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Speaker 1: them is if you do that, you're not going to

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Speaker 1: have full effectiveness of the additives, so you're wasting your

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Speaker 1: money a little bit by doing that. You're better off

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Speaker 1: adding the one additive for the first tank. Drive it

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Speaker 1: as long as you can, because the more time, the

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Speaker 1: more miles you give that fuel additive going through the injectors,

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Speaker 1: the better the overall cleaning. Then when you fill up,

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Speaker 1: add the second additive. That way, you get effectiveness of

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Speaker 1: both of those additives that you already paid. Duration makes

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Speaker 1: perfect sense to Faun. We've got to go. We're cluck.

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Speaker 1: We're up against the clock real quick. Where can the

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Speaker 1: listeners go for more information? Uh website Liqui hyphen Molly

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Speaker 1: m o l y dot com. Perfect listen. We appreciate

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Speaker 1: you taking the time together today. We'll get together again

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Speaker 1: real soon. You'll be well. Thanks Ron, You're welcome. Bye bye,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm running any in the car. Doctor. We are

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Speaker 1: back right after this. Don't go away. Welcome back where

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Speaker 1: I'm needing the car doctor. Let's get over and talk

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Speaker 1: to Rocky in the Adirondecks fifteen Chevy full size pick

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Speaker 1: him up truck. Rocky, welcome to the car doctor, sir.

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Speaker 1: How can I help? Yes? So I have about two

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Speaker 1: thousand fifteen max got about two hundred thousand miles on it,

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Speaker 1: and it started the loss of power. So they said

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Speaker 1: it was the turbo. So they replaced the turbo. And

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Speaker 1: now they're telling me that they can't get oil to

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Speaker 1: the turbo too, you know, for the bearing or to

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Speaker 1: keep it cool. And I'm sort of up in the air.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. Well, boy, that's weird

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Speaker 1: because the turb the turbo feed line comes off. The

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Speaker 1: turbo feed line comes off of engine oil pressure, if

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Speaker 1: I recall correctly, Are they what I was thinking too?

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Speaker 1: Unlet's they never checked the line or something like that.

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Speaker 1: I just don't know anything else about it. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: my question would be if it's feeding off of engine

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Speaker 1: oil pressure, are they saying the engine is running low

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Speaker 1: oil pressure. No, they're not saying that. Uh, They're just

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Speaker 1: saying they can't get oil to the turbo. Well, because

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Speaker 1: you know understand so think of a, um, what do

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Speaker 1: you do for a living Rocky, let me let me

508
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: attack the problem this way. I was a trader, but

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Speaker 1: I've worked on cars on the okay, so you know,

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Speaker 1: on on a on a printer. And I'm probably going

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Speaker 1: to explain this wrong because I'm not a printer. But

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Speaker 1: you know, I remember from the days of college printing

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Speaker 1: when I took graphic arts hahaha, a million years ago. Okay, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: so you know we had it. We had it. We

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Speaker 1: had an ink supply feeding the machine, feeding the print head,

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Speaker 1: feeding to to pushing against the platon. Does that sound right?

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Speaker 1: Something like that. But the point becomes there was there

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Speaker 1: was a supply, there was a line, there was a

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Speaker 1: starting point, a destination, and a line in the middle, right,

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Speaker 1: So engine oil pressure has to come up out of

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Speaker 1: the oil feed line. It's just simply it's just it's

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Speaker 1: a line on the side of the block with a

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Speaker 1: banjo bolt in the fitting and it comes up out

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Speaker 1: of the side and it's tied into an oil galley

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00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 1: and then that feeds the turbo line, and that feeds

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Speaker 1: to the oil to the turbo and then comes out

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Speaker 1: the other side of the turbo and goes back to

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Speaker 1: the engine to dump off and keep You know, it's

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Speaker 1: a supply of oil. Supply up and supply back right,

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00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: supply up, feedback. Maybe when they replaced the turbo that

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Speaker 1: that line got screwed up, well, it would replace that

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00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: first thing. You would think it's a banjo fitting. But listen,

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00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: the onus is on them, right they diagnosis. They said, Okay,

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00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: the bearings failed, all right, so tell me why. I

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00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 1: think what they're I think what they're trying to tell

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Speaker 1: you is the bearing and the turbo charger failed. It

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00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: sounds like the turbo was seized. Did they say anything

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Speaker 1: like that? The impeller wasn't spinning all it was. What

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00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: happened is this loss of peller, Like you know, the

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00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 1: turbo wasn't working right, right, because the turbo rides on

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Speaker 1: a bearing. Well, the turbo rides on a bearing, all right.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what a turbo charger is, rocky, Do

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Speaker 1: you understand the principle that I didn't exhaust gases go

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00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 1: through it? Right? The intakes and give you a boost

545
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: of paller, right, and it spins on a bearing and

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00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 1: they're saying it sounds like they're telling you that turbo

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Speaker 1: seas because of inadequate oil feed through the line. Why

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Speaker 1: can't the line be restricted? Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too,

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00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: And yeah because they run yeah oh oh yeah, yeah,

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00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah, But why can't the line be restricted? Um?

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00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 1: You know, why why can't we what I'm thinking? And

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Speaker 1: I don't know why they didn't do anything with that

553
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: that replacing the turble. They shouldn't replaced that line too.

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00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: I would think, well, at least at least at least

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00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,719
Speaker 1: verify that you've got pressure there. If they if they

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Speaker 1: saw that the bearing was seized, at least get suspicious,

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00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: like we've got to you know, we we've we've got

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Speaker 1: a problem. I think you gotta go back and talk

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Speaker 1: to these guys. Have they been have they been your mechanic? Long? No? No? Okay,

560
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 1: so yeah, so guess what, here's your first date. So

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00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 1: you know you've got to go to them and say, listen,

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Speaker 1: I know this is our first date, and I know

563
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: it's off to a bad start, but see it from

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Speaker 1: my perspective. All right, you told me you were gonna

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00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 1: walk me home, and you're leaving me out in the cold, um,

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00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 1: you gotta go back and talk to them, kiddo. They

567
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: need more diagnosis. This may be some misunderstanding, but you

568
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 1: need more information. But I would start to look at

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Speaker 1: that line and why is there low oil pressure coming

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00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 1: out of that line? Is there a potential engine problem?

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying there is, but more needs to be

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Speaker 1: discovered and explained. Here call me back five zero running

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Speaker 1: any of the car doctor back right after this. Welcome

574
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: back ran the car doctor. I'm sorry, Tommy, and I

575
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 1: wasn't paying attention on reading this article on the chip shortage.

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00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: The chip shortage seems to be a real issue. And

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00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 1: believe it or not, somebody that's sort of ahead of

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00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: the game is Tesla. Uh. It talks about how the

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Speaker 1: average vehicle has a dozen or more simple processors old

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00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 1: program to talk to each other, and it's sort of

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00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: the way vehicles were back programmed all the way back

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Speaker 1: as far as the new nineteen eighties, as far as

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Speaker 1: the eighties. The new way is like Tesla does that.

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Speaker 1: The article continues, a single circuit board that does everything

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00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: from transmitting to click for the turn signal over the

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00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 1: speakers to operating the breaks. A single processor does everything

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Speaker 1: everything Electric can be revised with central computer programming, and

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00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, I gotta give Tesla credit. That

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00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 1: is a smart way to do it. And they talk

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Speaker 1: about how Tesla can continue to produce cars during the

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Speaker 1: chip shortage because you can replace a chip that's in

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Speaker 1: short supply with another one and simply reprogram the central

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Speaker 1: computer to new characteristics. I thought I would do this,

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00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:27,360
Speaker 1: and if you notice the earth didn't tilt off, it's access.

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00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: I actually said something nice about Tesla. So I want

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Speaker 1: everybody to think I'm just so anti Tesla. I've just

597
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: up to this point, this is first positive piece of

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Speaker 1: information I've seen. I also want to point out that

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Speaker 1: we've received an email during the show today and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna reach out. A gentleman from Mark from I believe

601
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: it's Spokane, Washington or Washington State as it were, sent

602
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 1: me an email talking about a professor who's got some

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00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: really great answers on electric vehicles. I'm gonna send that

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Speaker 1: over to Tommy after the show today and try and

605
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: get him on the ear to talk to him, because listen,

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Speaker 1: this is all about exchanging ideas and looking at the

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00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 1: positives of anything and everything to because something has to

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Speaker 1: change that I know. And on my last note, I

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Speaker 1: will point this out. If you're thinking of buying a

610
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 1: new or used vehicle, be cautious. I noticed that some

611
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 1: of the car dealers now are doing something called a

612
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 1: market incentive, where they're taking the base price of the

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Speaker 1: vehicle and adding money to it because cars are in

614
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 1: such short supply, So know what you're buying before you buy.

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Speaker 1: I'm not an Indian the car doctor. It's time to

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Speaker 1: go until the next time, reminding all of you the

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Speaker 1: mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. Let's see you